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Author: Nguyen Huu Tuc, Vietnam National University Hanoi As soon as he took office in 2017, former US president Donald Trump adopted the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy to maintain US...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/04/is-vietnam-open-to-washingtons-indo-pacific-strategy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-vietnam-open-to-washingtons-indo-pacific-strategy

Author: Alexander R Arifianto, RSIS As Indonesia slowly inches toward the 2024 general election, preparations for the legislative framework that will serve as the electoral rules are now underway...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/03/indonesian-election-law-revision-a-win-for-the-ruling-elite/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=indonesian-election-law-revision-a-win-for-the-ruling-elite

Author: Paul Schuler, University of Arizona Commentary on the Communist Party of Vietnam’s 13th Party Congress has mostly focussed on General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s selection for a thir...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/01/pham-minh-chinhs-potential-to-shape-vietnams-political-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pham-minh-chinhs-potential-to-shape-vietnams-political-system

Author: Alexander L Vuving, APCSS Events over the past year have brought major long-term trends in Vietnam’s domestic and foreign policy to the surface. The country will be less aligned with Ch...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/27/where-to-now-for-vietnam-after-trong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-to-now-for-vietnam-after-trong

Author: Björn Dressel, ANU On 19 February 2021, Malaysia’s Federal Court found respected news outlet Malaysiakini guilty of contempt of court for five comments by readers deemed critical of th...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/26/volatile-politics-risks-undermining-malaysias-top-courts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=volatile-politics-risks-undermining-malaysias-top-courts

Author: Hung Nguyen, George Mason University The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) concluded on 1 February in Hanoi. Four notable developments emerged that will play ...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/25/vietnams-unresolved-leadership-question/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vietnams-unresolved-leadership-question

Author: Vasily Kashin, Higher School of Economics During the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in October 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia and China are coo...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/20/chinese-russian-ballistic-missile-cooperation-signals-deepening-trust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinese-russian-ballistic-missile-cooperation-signals-deepening-trust

Authors: Hien Do Benoit, CNAM and David Camroux, Sciences Po ‘Di bat bien, ung van bien’ — a phrase evoked by Ho Chi Minh in 1946 — is the Vietnamese rendering of a Chinese maxim which ma...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/18/idle-leadership-at-vietnams-13th-communist-party-congress/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=idle-leadership-at-vietnams-13th-communist-party-congress

Author: Brendan Clift, University of Melbourne The recent round-up and arrest of 53 pro-democracy activists in China’s nominally-autonomous, semi-democratic Hong Kong Special Administrative Reg...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/18/political-repression-and-authoritarian-legalism-in-hong-kong/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=political-repression-and-authoritarian-legalism-in-hong-kong

Author: Yuki Tatsumi, Stimson Center Japan’s 2021 defence budget is set to be its largest ever, continuing a near decade-long trend set in motion by former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Under Abeâ...

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/17/japanese-defence-spending-at-the-fiscal-crossroads/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japanese-defence-spending-at-the-fiscal-crossroads